Omri Ben-Shahar

Reading a book that discusses the standard terms in contracts is certainly not for everyone. Nevertheless, the issues discussed in this book are important for all because they you will find these terms in every contract you sign or anytime you click "I agree." The magnitude of such terms, including details of their fonts and capitalization, are dictated by law.
Regulators want to ensure that you have been informed about every eventuality. Unfortunately, they have created a monster that nobody reads which means that nobody is really informed. This is very much in the interest of vendors since it allows them to demonstrate that the customer has been informed and has no grounds to sue them.

The book is well written and genuinely interesting, despite its topic. The most entertaining thing in the book is a photo of a printout of the iTunes Terms that was hung up in the Chicago law school entrance way. The professors that wrote the book admit that they clicked accept without reading the terms and also admit that they had trouble understanding some of the terms themselves.

The book is a clear statement of how broken our contract law system has become.… (más)

The idea of recommending a book about the mandatory disclosure wordings in contracts is almost unthinkable. Who could be interested in such a dry subject? This book, however, makes this dry topic interesting and explains the importance of this topic to everyone.

Of course, since a picture is worth a thousand words, the best thing in the book is a photo of a printout of the Terms and Conditions from the Apple iTunes store. The printout, in Font 8, is many meters long which graphically makes the point about the impossibility of actually reading every set of terms you are confronted with.… (más)